It is amusing to see Connecticut-men claim that these poltroons were those who fought the Battle and defended Chatterton's hill, without alluding to any other troops, unless without giving them credit for having done anything worthy of notice. (Letter from a Gentleman in ' the Army, " Camp neab the Mills, about three miles North from the "White Plains, November 1,1776;" Hinman's Historical Collection, of the part taken by Connecticut, during the War of the Revolution, 91 ; etc.

3 Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 343 ; etc.

* General Howe to Lord George Qermame, •• New-York, 30 November, " 1776 ;" Sauthier's Plan of the Operations, etc. ; [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 208 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, il., 340; elo.

way of what have been more recently known as "the Mill-lane" and the road to Dobbs's-ferry, conveying to General Washington, at Head-quarters, information of the situation of the troops, on the opposite bank of the river. 5

On the left of the line of march of the Royal Army and on the western bank of the Bronx-river, which flowed through a marshy valley of some extent, at its base, arose the bold and rocky height which was known , then, and is still known, as " Chatterton's-hill." It is one of the range of high grounds, on the western side of the Bronx, on which the line of entrenched encampments had been thrown up by detachments from the American Army, the latter then occupying the Heights of Harlem, for the purpose of preventing the enemy from crossing the Bronx and closing the line of communication between the Army and the country -- the same line of defensive works, indeed, which subsequently covered the retreat of the Army, from Harlem Heights to the White Plains -- audit extended, northwardly, to within a short distance from the American lines -- the latter on the opposite side of the little stream and of the marshy intervale -- and really, to some extent, it commanded the right and centre of them. 6 It had been occupied, and an earthwork of small pretensions had been thrown up, on it, probably by the Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, commanded by Colonel John Brooks, then of General Lincoln's Division and subsequently Governor of Massachusetts ; ' and, on the morning of Monday, the